harry potter book of crimes

"Huh? The door is unlocked?"

Maka, who had almost passed by Harry and Ron, was now standing in front of the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade. He just pushed lightly, and the old wooden door opened by itself.

Aberforth is definitely not here today.

While Maca was waiting for Voldemort and even Grindelwald to attack at Hogwarts, Aberforth and the members of the Order of the Phoenix headed by Kingsley also had their own tasks.

What they have to do is actually very simple, but the burden on their shoulders is also quite heavy. Because if Voldemort chooses to attack Dumbledore's funeral today, his men's actions will inevitably be exposed.

It can be said that this is the best time to explore and even destroy Voldemort's secret stronghold.

So Maka knew that the Pig's Head Bar must be closed to customers at the moment. But obviously, the door was open.

Although Aberforth looks rough and rough, his mind is extremely delicate and he will definitely not make such a small mistake. In this case, maybe Harry and Ron have indeed escaped that disaster - Maka naturally hopes so too

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He thought for a moment, but without stopping, he raised his legs and walked into the bar.

The opaque windows made the room dark, but Maka did not hesitate. He quickly walked around the bar, opened the door and walked into Aberforth's bedroom.

He has never been here, but that doesn't stop him from knowing what's going on inside.

However, just a few steps into the same dark bedroom, Maka felt herself kicking something. Although it was true to say that it was hard, there was still a subtle elasticity.

He waved his hand, and a soft light suddenly illuminated the bedroom clearly. As his vision became clearer, he finally discovered what he had kicked.

"Isn't this Aberforth's goat?" Maka shook her head slightly, but ignored it.

Of course he could see that the goat was under a full-body binding spell and lay miserably on the floor, completely unable to move. But he didn't have the time to care about a goat now!

The portrait was hanging on the wall of the bedroom, but the girl in the painting that Harry and Ron saw did not seem to be on the canvas of the painting at this moment.

Maka stepped forward and tapped the edge of the frame with her fingers, trying to see if she could call out the person in the painting.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this. The person in the magic portrait could come and go between the portraits that belonged to him at will, but if he really went to another canvas, the other person wouldn't hear him knocking like this.

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But it turns out that his knock this time was not in vain. There are very few portraits of this girl, but right now, she is actually walking leisurely in the woods in the painting!

Seeing a slender figure appear in the forest in the background of the oil painting, walking slowly and leisurely towards this side, Maka breathed a sigh of relief.

It would be great to get the news about Harry and Ron directly from her mouth.

"Arianna," Maka nodded towards the girl in the painting, "Have Harry and Ron left here? Uh... you know who I'm talking about."

This girl is none other than Ariana Dumbledore, Dumbledore's biological sister.

When the Dumbledore brothers and Grindelwald were young, there was a chaotic three-way duel, and Ariana accidentally fell into a spell cast by an unknown person and died on the spot.

Since then, Aberforth, who loved his sister very much, had been blaming his brother. Because in his opinion, the meaningless melee was caused by the conflict between his brother and Grindelwald.

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This sad past event is not only an old problem for Aberforth, but also the biggest problem for his brother Albus Dumbledore.

In the past, while trying to enter different rooms in the Room of Requirement, Maka discovered the one with Ariana's portrait hanging on it.

So he knew very well that Dumbledore's sister had never been very talkative. If he wanted to ask her any questions, he must try his best to allow her to answer by "nodding" or "shaking his head", otherwise she would definitely answer noncommittally.

Turn around and leave.

This time, Ariana seemed to be in a good mood, at least she was willing to come out of the woods behind and listen to what he had to say.

When Maka asked about Harry and Ron, Ariana nodded calmly, and then stretched out her hand to motion towards the bedroom door.

"Thanks."

Being able to know clearly that Harry and Ron were fine undoubtedly helped Maka, who was full of boredom and uneasiness at the moment, to calm down a little.

"Since the two of them have left here, they should have gone back to the Burrow, right?"

In his opinion, Harry and Ron would never run stupidly to Hogwarts again no matter what. But who knows, the facts are always so unexpected, and people often find out after the fact that they are unprepared.

Maka casually sat down on the chair next to her, regardless of the dirt on her head, and just let out a long sigh again.

He is not the kind of hero who can watch a large number of people die without changing his expression, nor is he the kind of king who can commemorate the victims on the list of honor. He cannot maintain his dignity after experiencing such a disaster.

A little bit of "little selfishness".

To put it bluntly, he was still thinking about how to undo that terrible disaster and try to save those people who didn't deserve to die.

As for the method... of course it's not impossible. In fact, the method to save the defeat had already appeared during the top three competition of the previous school year.

Maka pondered for a moment and took out a thick magic notebook from the pocket on his waist. After gently touching the words "Book of Sin" on the cover, he opened this very long notebook after a long absence.

I haven't read the book in detail for a long time and turned it directly to the last page.

In the original "Book of Sin", the "Rule Rune Guidance Table" that he had read the most times was undoubtedly the "Rule Rune Guidance Table", and the second one was the three-dimensional rune array diagram on the last page.

This rune pattern drawn by magical threads was extremely complex. Although he had read it so many times and studied it persistently, the progress was not satisfactory.

However, he could more or less guess that this was probably a rune array used to transcend time and space. It was it that brought his future self back to the past and stood in front of him.

Not to mention that this rune formation diagram is very likely to have major flaws. Even if there are no flaws, he can't actually use it now.

"Do you want me to spend more than half my life studying to understand it, and then get a new "Book of Sin" and send it back to the past?" Maka forced a helpless smile, "...it's all in vain!

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With a muffled "snap" sound, the thick notebook was closed again.

However, after closing the notebook, Maka's movements suddenly stopped. As if he had thought of something, he frowned slightly and stared at the book in his hand in a daze.

It wasn't that he discovered something new in this "Book of Sin", but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

This happens occasionally when a person is thinking hard or remembering something.

It was like a vague feeling passing through my heart, as if I could almost understand it, but I couldn't quite capture its actual content.

"Time-Turner!"

In a flash of inspiration, Maka finally caught the idea that had almost slipped through her fingers.

"This is really... this is really..." Once he remembered this thing that he had almost forgotten in a corner of his mind, he clenched his fists with excitement, "How could I forget it?

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For a moment, Maka's entire mind was filled with the word "time turner". He stood up suddenly and walked back and forth in Aberforth's old bedroom to feel relieved.

of excitement.

He knows that now is not the time to be happy, or in other words, the next is the most critical moment. He must calm down again and plan the next move as carefully as possible to avoid falling short again.

After taking several deep breaths, he suppressed the joy in his heart and sat back on the dirty armchair.

He still vaguely remembered that in this world without him, Maka McClane, Harry and the others had relied on this "time turner" to save Sirius Black from death. But after that, due to an accident, the time switch

The device seems to have been destroyed...

"Why was it destroyed? Now..." Maka tried hard to search in the distant memory that had almost disappeared, trying to find the slightest clue, "Yes, Hermione once applied to go to school.

Those courses with conflicting schedules...application..."

While desperately trying to remember, he murmured to himself: "...Ministry of Magic! Yes, the Time Turner is stored in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries!"

In that world without Maka, the cabinet containing the time turner was hit by a stun spell during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, causing the time turners in it to fall into an infinite loop, never to be seen again.

It can no longer be used. Although Maka did not remember such details, he at least recalled some of the reasons.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Although he had encountered Voldemort's ambush in the Prophecy Hall of the Department of Mysteries, and even had a big fight in the Death Hall, at that time, he and a group of Black Death disciples were just passing by in the Time Hall. Those time transformations

The device should be fine.

"Without further ado!"

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to go to the Ministry of Magic immediately. After all, those time turners were his only hope now.